OCEANS'10 Seattle

OCEANS 2010 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE STUDENT POSTER PROGRAM

The 27th Student Poster Program of the OCEANS Conference Series was held in Seattle, where the Student Poster first began at OCEANS'89. The OCEANS Conference was held in the Washington State Conference and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington September 20-23, 2010. Once again the program was very successful and was greatly appreciated by the student participants. The program was organized by Colonel Norman D. Miller, IEEE/OES, and was supported by a grant from ONR. Fifty eight student poster abstracts were received and twenty six students invited to participate. Thirty five abstracts were received from the US, ten from Asian Countries, eleven from European countries and three from Canada. Unfortunately the dates of the conference conflicted with many of the students school schedules and as a result only eighteen students were able to attend and present their posters. The posters were displayed in a section of the Exhibition Hall and received a lot of attention during the breaks and lunch times.

The students were assembled on Monday afternoon for instructions and each made a short presentation describing their work to the judges and fellow students. In addition to their poster presentation each student was scheduled to give a presentation in a regular session of the Conference. The poster judging team was unique in that four of the five judges had been previous Student Poster Participants and each had received awards for their posters at their respective conferences. The judging was completed by Wednesday and the presentation of the awards was made following the noon luncheon on Thursday in the Exhibition Center. The Conference Chairman, Dr. Robert Spindel announced the Student Poster Awards Ceremony and then introduced Colonel Norman D. Miller to give the awards. Colonel gave a short introduction to the Student Poster program which began at OCEANS '89 in Seattle. The students were then introduced and each received a certificate for their participation in the Conference. Colonel Miller then announced that we had achieved a milestone at this conference with the presentation of the 500th Student Poster! Mr. Tyler Thornbrue, University of Hawaii at Manoa was introduced and received a certificate and a special award, which was presented by a representative of SAIC who very generously provided this special award. The student award winners were then announced, introduced, and given their awards. The winning students were:

Following the awards presentations Michael Shives asked if he could say a few words. He thanked the Conference for the award and being invited to participate in the program. He especially appreciated the opportunity to attend and participate in session, see the exhibits, and meet and mingle with the attendees and fellow students. Colonel Miller then asked the audience to give a round of applause to all of the Student Participants. He closed the session by announcing that all of the students were now members of the